Kern County Ca Suits

The family of a Camarillo woman killed last year by a Christo umbrella uprooted in high winds near Lebec has filed a claim accusing Kern County officials of failing to predict the potential dangers of the huge environmental art display. Lori Keevil Mathews, 34, died Oct. 26 when gusty winds ripped one of the 488-pound yellow umbrellas from its moorings near a Kern County road and sent it tumbling down a hill into a crowd of spectators.

The family of a Camarillo woman killed last year by a Christo umbrella uprooted in high winds near Lebec has filed a claim accusing Kern County officials of failing to predict the potential dangers of the huge environmental art display. Lori Keevil Mathews, 34, died Oct. 26 when gusty winds ripped one of the 488-pound yellow umbrellas from its moorings near a Kern County road and sent it tumbling down a hill into a crowd of spectators.

A state appellate court opinion has restricted a Kern County school district's ability to ban two books from its curriculum and said the school board had no authority to ban the books if the decision was based on religious grounds.

The family of a Camarillo woman killed last year by a Christo umbrella uprooted in high winds near Lebec has filed a claim accusing Kern County officials of failing to predict the potential dangers of the huge environmental art display. Lori Keevil Mathews, 34, died Oct. 26 when gusty winds ripped one of the 488-pound yellow umbrellas from its moorings near a Kern County road and sent it tumbling down a hillside into a crowd of spectators.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld an $11.1-million award to three Kern County farmers who sued the J. G. Boswell Co. for malicious prosecution. The high court denied a request by Boswell to review a 1988 Kern County jury's decision that the cotton grower abused the legal process to silence political opponents. The fight began in 1982 over a referendum to build a canal that would have carried water from the Sacramento River to growers in the south.

The family of a Camarillo woman killed last year by a Christo umbrella uprooted in high winds near Lebec has filed a claim accusing Kern County officials of failing to predict the potential dangers of the huge environmental art display. Lori Keevil Mathews, 34, died Oct. 26 when gusty winds ripped one of the 488-pound yellow umbrellas from its moorings near a Kern County road and sent it tumbling down a hillside into a crowd of spectators.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld an $11.1-million award to three Kern County farmers who sued the J. G. Boswell Co. for malicious prosecution. The high court denied a request by Boswell to review a 1988 Kern County jury's decision that the cotton grower abused the legal process to silence political opponents. The fight began in 1982 over a referendum to build a canal that would have carried water from the Sacramento River to growers in the south.

A state appellate court opinion has restricted a Kern County school district's ability to ban two books from its curriculum and said the school board had no authority to ban the books if the decision was based on religious grounds.